Bug Reporting

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Introduction

riscos.info accepts bug reports against any program hosted here, or against the site itself. These can include obvious faults, feature requests, or the simplest of suggested fixes. Making these bugs readily available allows developers to prioritize issues, allow planning, and ensures tracking so that when a problem is fixed, both the reporter and developer know they can move on.

Reporting bugs also removes some burden from developers, as it helps ensure a consistent style and format that is not readily possible for example in email.

Guidelines

Bug reporting needs to follow certain guidelines to be useful to developers. It needs to have
comprehensive details, and ideally be repeatable. The following guide is required reading
before submitting any bugs to riscos.info:

Also, the "severity" in most cases will be "feature request" or "normal". "major" should only be given to bugs that cause major system instability, and not bugs that merely prevent you running a program.

When you first enter a bug, you will need to first choose a "product", then a "category". If you are unsure, it is ok to guess - we can move it.

Bug Categories

Before reporting a new bug, you should check it hasn't already been reported.